INDEX.

U.

Vane, Harry, 560.
Vannes, bay of, 5.

Vassals of the Norman lords, 175.
Vellore, mutiny at, 813.

Veneti, their quarrel with Julius
Cæsar, 5.

Vere, Robert de, Marquis of Dublin,
341; and Duke of Ireland, 342.
Verneuil, battle of, 376.
Vernon, Admiral, captures Porto
Bello, 697; fails at Carthagena,
698.

Verona, congress of, 769.
Verulam, frightful massacre at, by
the Gaels, 68.

Verulam, Lord. (See BACON.)
Vespasian, his conquests in the south
of Britain, 14: conquests of, 32.
VICTORIA, Queen, reign of, 789-815
(see Analysis, 789); her marriage
with Prince Albert, 792.
Vienna, conference at, 806.
Vienne, John de, governor of Calais,
309.

853

Vigo, attack on, 489; naval victory
of, 681.

Villeinage, abolition of, 408.

Villeins, 115, 116; condition of the,
176.

Villiers, George, favourite of James I.,
524; his extraordinary rise, 525.
(See BUCKINGHAM.)

Villiers, Mr., his efforts for repealing
the Corn-laws, 794.

Vimiera, victory of, 746.

Vinegar Hill, carnage of, 737; punish-
ment of the rebels, 738.

Virginia, Sir Walter Raleigh con-
ducts a colony there, 483; expedi-
tion to, 711.
Visigoths, 34.

Vittoria, battle of, 749; its impor-
tant consequences, ib.

Vortigern, Prince of the Damnonii,
36; applies to the Saxons for aid,
37.

Vortimer poisoned, 48.

Wakefield, battle of, 388, 389.
Wales, invasion of, under William II.,

129; Henry II.'s contest with, 189;
invaded and conquered by Ed.
ward I., 260–264; Edward II.
first prince of, 278; his flight to,
289; contests in, under Henry IV.,
354, 355; landing of the French in,
361.

Wales, Frederick Prince of, his con

duct, 706; his death, 707.
Wales, Henry Prince of, 522; his
noble qualities, and death, ib.
Wales, Prince of, son of George I.,
688; his domestic quarrels, ib.;
Prince of, son of George II.; his
enmity against his father, 695.
Wales, George Prince of, his marriage,
and dissolute character, 735; be-
comes regent, 755 (see PRINCE
REGENT), and afterwards George
IV.

Walhalla, bloody feasts of the, 43.
Wallace, Sir William, the hero of
Scotland, raises the standard of
revolt, 270; his successful career,
270, 271; appointed "Guardian of
the Kingdom," &c., 271; his be-
trayal and savage execution, 274;
his high character, ib.

Waller, Edmund, 569.
Walpole, Sir Robert, profitably en-
gaged in the South Sea Bubble,
690; his administration, 692 et
seq.; his influence over the House
of Commons, 695; his system of
bribery and corruption, 696; suc-
cess of his government, ib. his
resignation and retirement as Earl
of Orford, 698.

Walsingham, Sir Francis, secretary
of Queen Elizabeth, 485.
Walter de Mapes, 191.

Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland,
107, 127.

Walton, Captain, his eloquent de-
spatch respecting the destruction
of the Spanish navy, 688.
Walworth, William, Mayor of Lon-
don, 330; strikes down Wat Tyler,
335.

War of the two Janes, 304.
Warbeck, Perkin, the impostor, 415;
personates Richard Duke of York,
416; invades England, 417; cap-
tured and executed, 419.

Warren, Sir John, defeats and cap-
tures a French squadron
Lough Swilly, 738.

near

Wars of the Roses. (See ROSES.)
Warwick, Edward Earl of, 412; im-
postors assume his name, 413; his
imprisonment, 419.

Warwick, John Dudley, Earl of, 452;
created Duke of Northumberland,
ib.

Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of,
"the King-maker," 385; his dis-
satisfaction at Edward the Fourth's
secret marriage, 392; his numerous
retainers, 393; declares against
Edward IV., and restores Henry

VI., ib.; defeated and slain at the
battle of Barnet, 394.
Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, ap-
pointed to command that part of
the navy which still continued true
to Parliament, 581.

Washington, city of, captured, 759.
Washington, General George, 711;
appointed commander-in-chief of
the American colonists, 725.
Wat Tyler's rebellion, 333; he is slain,

335.

Waterloo, battle of, 753, 754.
Watling-street road, 23 n.
Watt, James, the engineer, 719.

Wealth, great diffusion of, in the
fourteenth century, 295.

Wellesley, Sir Arthur. (See WELLING-
TON.)

Wellington, Duke of (Sir Arthur Wel-
lesley), his expedition to Spain,
745; his high military character
and great exploits in India, &.;
victory of Vimiera, 746; defeats
Marshal Soult, ib.; his continued
successes, 748, 749; gains the battle
of Vittoria, and overthrows French
domination in Spain, 749; at the
Congress of Verona, 769; his with-
drawal from Canning's administra-
tion, 772; becomes premier, 774;
passes the Catholic Emancipation
Bill, ib.; his duel with Lord Win-
chelsea, 775; discharges all the
offices of the Cabinet during Sir
Robert Peel's absence, 785; his
death and character, 800.
Welsh, Henry II. makes war upon
the, 174; but is compelled to re-
treat, ib.; subdued by Henry II,
210; Henry the Fourth's victories
over the, 358.
Wentworth, Thomas, 538; made

Privy Councillor, 543; and Presi-
dent of the Court of York, 544;
his renegade character, ib.; his de-
spotic conduct and arbitrary mea-
sures, 548; created Lord Strafford,
553. (See STRAFFORD.)
Wessex, Saxon kingdom of, 39, 40,
46

West Saxons, kingdom of the, 94 n.
Westminster Hall burnt, 138,
Westmoreland, Charles Neville, Earl
of, his rebellion in favour of Mary
Queen of Scots, 480; defeated, i.
Wexford, storming of, 590
Whig administration, their declining
power, 781.

Whigs, George I. allies himself with
the, 683.

Whigs and Tories, 624; factious
spirit of the, 657; contests of the,
677; contests between the, 704;
bitter contests between the, 732.
White Rose, the emblem of the House
of York, 352.

Whitworth, Lord, insulted by Na-
poleon, 741.

Wickliffe, his translation of the Bible,
318. persecution of, 324; promul-
gation of his doctrines, 349.